Showing posts with label cory catfish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cory catfish. Show all posts

Saturday, February 20, 2010

AFRICAN DWARF FROG! New household aquarium pet!

Welcome to the African dwarf frog world. Free tips about keeping African Dwarf Frogs. Lots of info and more on African Dwarf Frogs, your home and family and pet home.

The AFRICAN DWARF FROG seems to have become a common household pet in many a home.
This is a very good thing if you are a bit squeamish about keeping frogs as a pet. You do not have to worry about your children keeping crickets and other crawlies running around the house.

The AFRICAN DWARF FROG however, will need a fish tank or aquarium in which to live. If you go to my blog on: http://fishtankinfo.blogspot.com/ you will find a lot of information which will help you to set up home for your AFRICAN DWARF FROG.

You can also find information on the best plants for your new aquarium on my blog called: http://aquariumliveplants.blogspot.com/

Other blogs of mine which could help you with choosing companions for your AFRICAN DWARF FROG are: http://corycatfish.blogspot.com/ and http://siamesefightingfishworld.blogspot.com/

Read all my previous posts and you will also succumb to these incredible creatures. They are really AMAZING!

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

AFRICAN DWARF FROG Fish tank or Aquarium care e-book review.

Welcome to the amazing world of the African Dwarf Frog. Free tips about keeping African Dwarf Frogs. Lots of info and more on African Dwarf Frogs, your home and family and pet home.

You want an amazing fish tank or Aquarium don’t you?

I know that all pet fish lovers would love to have a beautiful looking fish tank or aquarium.

Well, whether you have Cory catfish, Siamese fighting fish/ betta fish or an African dwarf frog, then this e-book author reveals everything you need to know about the best, fastest and easiest way to maintain the efficiency of your freshwater aquarium without spending a lot of money on supplies.

He has been maintaining freshwater aquariums for over25 years and in that time has developed a foolproof ‘formula’ for setting up a beautiful freshwater fish tank.

His system is 100% guaranteed to work for you.

He also provides step by step instructions for every single aspect of freshwater aquarium maintenance, even if you are a total beginner.
Click on: ‘AMAZING FRESHWATER AQUARIUMS’ for more information.

Friday, March 27, 2009

African Dwarf Frog fed by hand!!

Welcome to the amazing world of the African Dwarf Frog. Free tips about keeping African Dwarf Frogs. Lots of info and more on African Dwarf Frogs, your home and family and pet home.

How to feed your African Dwarf Frog by hand!

Your African Dwarf Frog may not be getting all the food you supply them with!

They do not have aggressive appetites, and if you have other fish in your tank with them, particularly Cory Catfish, which are also bottom feeders, then your African Dwarf Frog may miss the food you put in the tank altogether.

So what do you do? Well, feed them by hand of course!

It’s a much easier way to feed your African Dwarf Frog and at least you will be sure that they are getting enough food.

How do I do this you say?

Hold the food in your fingers and feed it to your frog!
They may get scared at first and swim away, but just follow them around, the scent of the food will eventually be too tempting and they will come and eat it from your hand.
This also helps in making them very friendly and not shy of people.

Click on 'free bonus books' for more information.

Companions to consider: http://corycatfish.blogspot.com/

http://siamesefightingfishworld.blogspot.com/

Sunday, March 22, 2009

More tips to improve keeping of your African Dwarf Frog

Welcome to the amazing world of the African Dwarf Frog. Free tips about Keeping African Dwarf Frogs. Lots of African Dwarf Frog news and much much more on African Dwarf Frogs, your home and family and pet home.

What do I feed my African Dwarf Frog you ask?

African Dwarf Frogs swallow their food whole. They do not chew their food because they do not have teeth!

But where will I find all the crickets etc. that I know frogs eat? No crickets!
African Dwarf Frogs are aquatic creatures.

African Dwarf Frogs can have a variety of live, frozen or freeze dried and pelleted food. You can get specially formulated pelleted food which contains all the vitamins and minerals that they need to grow healthy and happy.

African Dwarf Frogs can be fed freeze dried or frozen brine shrimp, frozen or freeze dried blood worms or glass worms. You also get HBH frog and tadpole bites, frozen or freeze dried krill or baby shrimp. They will also eat live guppy fry or any type of live bearer fry. Night crawlers or earth worms, which are chopped into small bite size pieces are other types of food which your African Dwarf Frog eat. Squimish types might not like these. Do not feed your African Dwarf Frog 'fish flakes', it does not provide enough nutrition and they will starve to death!

Click on: http://aquariumliveplants.blogspot.com/

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Tips to improve the keeping of your African Dwarf Frog

Welcome to the amazing world of the African Dwarf Frog. Free tips about keeping African Dwarf Frogs. Lots of African Dwarf Frog news and much much more on African Dwarf Frogs, your home and family and pet home.

I'm squeamish about feeding my African Dwarf Frog, you say!

Your African Dwarf Frog does not do much foraging for their food. Their food tends to get lost easily in the gravel or sand. They probably won't find their food if it's not in front of their faces.
Remember, they are bottom feeders, (just like your Cory catfish, except their method of finding food is to search the bottom with their sensory barbels) and their eyesite is not good.

One of the best ways of feeding your African Dwarf Frog is in a small terra cotta plate, which you can buy at most craft stores for a small amount.

Place the plate under their small terra cotta pot, making sure that it is secure. You can then put their food in a small bowl of water and using a turkey baster, draw it up and then squirt it out slowly onto the small terra cotta plate in their tank.

This method allows them to find their food much easier and they can then fill themselves up.
Easy, if you know how!

Monday, March 9, 2009

A choice of tank: Your African Dwarf Frog.

Welcome to the amazing world of the African Dwarf Frog. Free tips about keeping African Dwarf Frogs. Lots of African Dwarf Frog news and much much more on African Dwarf Frogs, your home and family and pet home.


Choosing a tank for your African Dwarf Frog is very easy. The main rule is one gallon (4.5 liters) of water for every frog! They are not very messy and do not produce a lot of waste, but, as I have said, their food tends to foul up the water more than they do.

Tanks should be lined at the bottom with smooth rocks or sand.

Remember, these frogs have sensitive skin and they spend a lot of time on the bottom. Rough rocks or pebbles could irritate their skin and cause discomfort.

Do not put them in very high or deep tanks, because they are not the best of swimmers and it could be stressful for them to be straining to reach air at the top.

Any objects that you place in the tank must also be secure, because the African Dwarf Frog is so active that they could accidentally knock them over.

Your African Dwarf Frog does not need a heater in their tank as long as the temperature of the water does not drop below 70 degrees (20c).

Aquarium gravel would give your tank a more natural and realistic look, but will need cleaning every two weeks. Sand, smooth rocks or maybe very small stone colored marbles would be suitable. Do not use large marbles or river stones, because your frogs could get wedged underneath and not be able to reach air.

Do not forget the lid!! Remember, frogs jump! Just like your Siamese fighting fish/Betta fish, your African Dwarf Frog can jump right out of their tank. The lid must also have air slits, so that they can breathe! Very important!

If you want a companion tank i.e. with other fish species, then Cory catfish, Betta fish/ Siamese fighting fish, are considered as good companions. They will need the same setup as your African Dwarf Frog. All three species do breathe air.

Cory catfish dash up to the surface occasionally, stick their snouts above the water for an instant and take a breath of air.

If you are going to keep a Cory catfish with your African Dwarf Frog, then it’s probably best to have a soft sand substrate in your tank. Cory’s are mostly bottom feeders and search the bottom with their sensory barbels and suck up food items with their mouths, just about burying their snouts up to their eyes. Anything hard or rough will damage their barbels.

A filter keeps the water clean, but is not needed for any of the above creatures. They are all sensitive to vibrations in the water, so maybe you should stick to changing the water every one or two weeks. If you have a big tank then maybe use a whisper power filter. This is the quietist of all the hanging filters and has the least amount of surface disturbance.

Lighting up your tank can be done using fluorescent incandescent globes or none at all. Be sure to turn all your lights off at night, because it’s not natural to have lights on 24 hours a day. It also encourages rapid algae growth. You definitely do not want that! Click on ‘free aquarium care video’ for more information.

Click on: http://fishtankinfo.blogspot.com/
Also: http://aquariumliveplants.blogspot.com/